Andy Boynton is Dean of Boston College's Carroll School of Management, one of the world's leading business schools. He is the author of several books and co-creator of DeepDive™, the world's leading methodology for helping executives harness the power of teams to significantly improve problem-solving speed, innovation and results.

Prior to joining Boston College, Boynton was a professor of strategy at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland for 10 years. At the IMD, he led a faculty team and was program director of one of the world's top ten Executive MBA programs, as recognized by Business Week.

Boynton has recently launched new research projects to explore how distinguished experts from a variety of knowledge-domains work with ideas to achieve professional success and improve their effectiveness in social networks. His latest book, The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen (Jossey-Bass), is based on this research and is co-authored with Bill Fischer and William Bole.

He has also published extensively on factors underlying high-performing teams across a variety of disciplines, including art, science, exploration and design. His previous books include Virtuoso Teams: Lessons from Teams That Changed Their Worlds (Financial Times-Prentice Hall) and Invented Here: Maximizing Your Organization's Internal Growth and Profitability (Harvard Business School Press).

Boynton graduated from Boston College in 1978 and earned his MBA and Ph.D. at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has served on the MBA faculty at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business and at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.

In addition to his publishing career and role as Dean of the Carroll School of Management, Boynton has over twenty years of experience speaking and designing powerful executive education sessions and seminars for firms around the world. He is often utilized by organizations looking to build more innovative and effective teams, and his articles in this area have appeared in elite management journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and The California Management Review.

The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen - In today's information-based economy, ideas are an extraordinarily valuable asset, fueling professional growth and driving your organization's success. What can you do to help your organization become a magnet for great ideas? How can you leverage "The Hunt" for great ideas as a source of competitive advantage?

Professor Andy Boynton has spent a career working with executives around the world answering these very questions. Most recently, Dean Boynton and his co-author Bill Fischer, have provided executives with powerful insight into how to create an idea-intensive organization in their ground breaking book, THE IDEA HUNTER: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen. Andy shares the essential skills and tools of idea hunting in his highly interactive executive education program, delivered in 90 minute, half day or full day formats. In all formats, Andy's speech is customized and integrated with video case studies, participation by attendees, and tangible takeaway tools that can be implemented immediately.

The Paradox of Success and the Catalyst Program: Learn How to Manage Current Performance AND Find Future Growth - It happens to all successful businesses - the priorities of running the business often create barriers to growth. If your business faces this challenge, this speech has solutions for you. Research shows that managers of growing businesses eventually face the same challenge: How to be innovative and launch new streams of revenue growth while successfully managing the existing business. This struggle has been called the "Paradox of Success" and requires "catalyst" actions to move forward. The Catalyst speech focuses on how managers can break through growth barriers and remove the tradeoffs between current performance and future growth.

Professor Andy Boynton is one of the top executive development program designers and facilitators in the world and offers customized executive experiences that address strategy, organizational change, leadership, teamwork, professional career enhancement. In this speech, Dean Boynton demonstrates how barriers to new growth pile up over time and identifies methods to unleashing new growth. Customized to the needs of the audience, the Catalyst speech will provide a short burst of management prescription aimed at topics essential to unleashing growth in many organizations. Customized and integrated with video case studies, participation by attendees and tangible takeaway tools that can be implemented immediately.

The DeepDive™: Innovation and Problem Solving - The DeepDive™ program will leverage your team's talents, brainpower and experience to create tangible solutions to a wide variety of business issues such as planning change, creating a vision, formulating a strategy, redesigning a process, or launching new services.

The DeepDive™ Team Approach is a process that is practical, pragmatic, deliverable and innovative. It creates a flow of ideas that quickly develops strategy with concrete solutions on a short deadline. DeepDive™ will create BIG Change and Innovation in a rapid and focused approach. The approach uses strong leadership of your best people that will lead to development of a clear mandate. The team will not compromise until the job is done! Professor Andy Boynton is the co-creator of DeepDive™ which has been used hundreds of times with organizations around the world to bring interactive energy, excitement and results to workshops, meetings, and conferences.